Belt-buckle.



PATENTED SEPT. s, 1908.

J. HOUGH. BELT BUCKLE. APPLICATION I ILBD JULY 17, 1907.

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JAMES HOUGH, OF GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA.

BELT-BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 1908.

Application filed Ju1y217,1907. Serial No. 384,191.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES HOUGH, of the city of Guelph, in the county of Wellington, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt-Buckles, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in belt buckles, and the object of the invention is to devise a simple form of buckle, which will comprise in its construction a means for removing the wire from the cork of a bottle and means for pulling the cork of the bottle, and also a means for removing a cap or crown where the closure for the bottle 1s a crown cap and it consists essentially of a buckle having the tongue formed in the shape of a cork screw end, oppositely located end spicular projections at the front of the buckle and at one side of the bar and under which the free end of the stra or band of the buckle is designed to be he d, and oppositely located spicular projections at the o posite side of the bar and at the back of the buckle, the parts being otherwise arranged and being utilized as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1 is a view showing my buckle in its ordinary use when worn. Fig. 2, is an elevation view of the buckle complete, the stra or band being partially shown in dotted ines. Fig. 3, is a sectional plan showing the (position in dotted lines of the strap or ban In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the buckle, which comprises the side bars A, end bar A under which the free end of the strap is designed to be passed, a cross bar A which carries a tongue A, which is the form of a cork screw with a spicular end. The ends of the side bars A are bent as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 particularly, first outwardly at right angles and then inwardly at right angles to the aforesaid bend to form fiat spicular projections A It will be noticed that the projections A are located 0 posite each other and extend to the front of the buckle.

When the strap B is passed through the closed end of the buckle andgheld izby the tongue extending through one of the holes of the same the free end of the strap is passed underneath the projections A as indicated in Fig. 1, and is retained by them.

A are flat spicular projections located at the back of the buckle opposite each other and are of a difierent form from the spicular projections A They may, however, be of any suitable form, and are located between the bar A and end bar A To remove the closure of a bottle, if such closure be a cork and wired the wires may be cut by the sharp and spicular projections A being passed underneath the wire. The tongue A may be then thrown at right angles to the position shown in Fig. 2, which is atright angles to the plane of the buckle and the balance of the buckle may be used as handle in order to insert the cork screw into the cork and pull it. If the closure for the bottle be a crown ea or cork the bar A of the buckle may be p aced on the top of the cap and the spicular projections A inserted under the rim of the cap, whereu on the buckle may be used as a lever in or er to lift the edge of the cap and remove it in the manner now commonly understood. In so doing, of

course, it may be advisable to throw back the tongue in order to permit of the buckle being used freely.

Such a buckle as I describe may be provided for all belts without affecting the appearance of the belt deleteriously, in fact without affecting the appearance at all, and yet it may be utilized most advantageously in extracting or removing the closure of the bottle no matter Whether it be a cork or a crown ca closure.

What claim as my invention is:

Abuckle having the tongue thereof twisted in the shape of a corkscrew spiral to form in the onemember both a retainer for the strap and a cork puller.

JAMES HOUGH.

Witnesses B. BOYD, R. COBAIN. 

